In article <25585 at mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote: >% I am intentionally ignoring multibyte strings here, as they mainly > serve to confuse the issue. Oops. That should have read `multibyte characters'. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris at cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris